Effectiveness of Family-based Group Psychotherapy for Adolescents With Illicit Drug Use
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Academic or social status
研究概览
简要总结
Background: Substance abuse among children and adolescents is an important public health issue in Taiwan. Kaoshiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Taiwan Kaoshiung Juvenile and Family Court will cooperate in a counseling program for adolescents with illicit drug abusers in 2013, to perform a mandatory 10-week family-based group psychotherapy.
Aims: This study aims (1) to investigate the effectiveness of the family-based group psychotherapy for adolescents with illicit drug abusers and their parents; (2) to identify whether the counseling program is effective for preventing the adolescents from relapse of substance abuse.
Expected Results: The investigators expect that (1) group psychotherapy may involve comprehensive benefits for adolescents with illicit drug abusers, by improving the changes in adolescents' substance-craving symptoms and behavioral problems, and reducing stress of their parents; (2) this counseling program is effective for preventing the adolescents from relapse of substance abuse; (3) the findings in this study will not only demonstrate empirical evidence of treatment effectiveness for adolescents with illicit drug abuse, but will also provide useful clues for future implementation of policy making.
详细描述
- The investigators plan to recruit 200 adolescents (=< 20 years) with illicit drug abusers and their parents (100 of intervention group and 100 of comparison group).
- The intervention group consists of youths that participate in a program that combines a weekly 10-session out-patient motivational enhancement psychotherapy (MEP) program for youths with an additional weekly 10-session parenting skill training (PST) program for their guardians.
- The comparison group consists of youths that receive standard supervision by the court. All participants were followed up for a maximum of three years.
- The assessments for adolescents and their parents will be taken at pre- and post-treatment, using the Adolescents' Behavior-problem Scale, the Craving Beliefs Questionnaire, the Family APGAR, the Parenting Stress Index-Short From (PSI/SF) and the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ).
- The information of adolescents' relapse of substance abuse will be collected by Kaoshiung Juvenile and Family Court.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 20 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •The adolescents with illicit drug age between 12 to
- •One of their parents can attend the counseling program.
排除标准
- •The adolescents or their parents can't attend the program.
结局指标
主要结局
Academic or social status
时间窗: Longitudinal follow-up for 3 years
The academic or social outcome is categorized into as attending school, being employed, or being a dropout/unemployed.
Substance-use relapse
时间窗: Longitudinal follow-up for 3 years
Relapse is defined as positive urine test for any substance within the follow-up period.
次要结局
未报告次要终点